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The 2016 Presidential race has wrapped up and Donald Trump is President Elect of the United States. Hillary Clinton won the popular vote, but she did not win over swing states like Iowa. This is the fourth time a president elect has not won the popular vote.

270 is the magic number for a presidential candidate to win the presidency, and Trump comfortably exceeded that mark. He acquired 290 of the 538 electoral votes. Democrat Hillary R. Clinton picked up 232 votes.

According to CNN, Voter turnout has dropped since the past two general elections. In 2008, roughly 129 million people voted in the general election. Additionally, in the 2012 presidential election, approximately 127 million people voted. In the 2016 election about 120 million votes were cast. In the United States, there are almost 219 million eligible voters. 46% of Americans did not partake in voting for the president of the United States. USA ranks 27th in voter turnout in the world. Belgium is number one with over 90% voter turnout.

According to CNN, Clinton won the popular vote by a margin of nearly 947,579 votes.

The last time this occurred was in the 2000 general election when George W. Bush won the presidency but lost the popular vote to Al Gore by 540,520 votes, according to thirty-thousand.org, The other two occurrences happened in the late 1800s. In 1888, Benjamin Harrison won the electoral vote with a 58% margin. Similarly, in 1876, Rutherford B. Hayes won the electoral college by one vote.

In Mahaska County, 71.4% of all registered voters turned out to vote on Election Day. This is well above the national average of 58.1%.

Besides the presidential election, there were also elections for the U.S. Senate. In the United States Senate race, Chuck Grassley won the race by a comfortable margin. The incumbent was first elected into the Senate in 1980, serving in the Senate for just under 36 years.

Ten Mahaska County judges maintained their position. According to the Mahaska County Auditor's Office, the three highest vote getters were Judge William S. Owens with 70 percent of of the vote, Judge Kirk A. Daily with 69% of the vote and Judge Joel D. Yates with 69% of the vote as well.